Reflection Quotes And Sayings

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“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”
– Siri Hustvedt

“Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.”
– Tarjei Vesaas

“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.”
– Jess C. Scott

“Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.”
– Joel T. McGrath

“And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille’s soul was beginning.”
– Patrick Suskind

“He’s got a can up there,’ Richard said.”
– John Steinbeck

“I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don’t know what I see. I don’t even know what I want to see.”
– Nina LaCour

“Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.”
– Mollie Marti

“I think before I act—and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.”
– John Christopher

“Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round”
– Marcellus Emants

“Friendship exhibits a glorious “nearness by resemblance” to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest. That, says an old author, is why the Seraphim in Isaiah’s vision are crying “Holy, Holy, Holy” to one another (Isaiah VI, 3). The more we thus share the Heavenly Bread between us, the more we shall all have.”
– C.S. Lewis

“There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper, would be entertaining in some degree: the follies of our own life, and those we are liable to be drawn into by others, will constantly afford matter for serious reflection.”
– Henry Spencer Ashbee

“Wisdom comes from reflection.”
– Deborah Day

“The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others but with yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.”

– Mollie Marti

“The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”
– Barack Obama

“I stared at myself in the mirror, wondering what she saw that I didn’t.”
– Sherri Lee Emmons

“Living in a way that reflects one’s values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.”

– Deborah Day

“Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself”
– Jennifer Worth

“Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself – this is called Lucifer.”
– Martin Buber

“has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?”
– Siobhan Dowd

“How did it make you feel?”
– Irvine Welsh

“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.”
– Umberto Eco

“All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.”
– Criss Jami

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”
– Russell Hoban

“They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.”
– Ellis Peters

“I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God’s reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.”
– Criss Jami

“When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.”
– Joel T. McGrath

“Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming.”
– Mollie Marti

“It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what’s waiting for us now that we’ve returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.”
– Dinaw Mengestu

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